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According to Dame Edna, it's not Quantas, it's QuaintArse.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Vivic wrote: The first female flight attendants in 1930 were required to weigh less than 115
pounds. In addition, they had to be nurses and unmarried.
That was purely to reduce complications for the captain... 
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How about comparison of stewardess among different airlines?
dev
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You've missed the fact that all of them hate our beloved CG... 
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That's not true. They love him. Screwing him over provides hours and hours of entertainment for them. I believe there's a whole industry involved in coming up with new ways to make his life miserable.
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Another interesting thing i found and very few know
LINK[^]
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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Source?
Vivic wrote: The height requirement for Flight Attendant is for safety reasons, making sure that all flight attendants can reach overhead safety equipment.
I know a 1.50m girl who worked as a flight attendant for quite some time.
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Cathay Pacific tend to have shorter attendants too.
Because so many people in the East are much shorter (on average) than in the West, Cathay employ shorter attendants so as not to intimidate the customers by looming over them.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Deost Underwear from the Seiren company in Japan [^] will be the next viral meme to metastasize world-wide: I am absolutely certain.
Surely, the YouTube videos are being made, as I write this, showing on a split-screen the effect (in a crowded movie-theater, at two different screening times) of the same man prone to spontaneous eructations: in one screening with standard underwear; and, in the other screening, wearing Deost flatulence-suppression underwear.
The two different visceral reactions of the audience sitting near the man, as his ... uhhh ... "nether voice speaks," will be more convincing than any scientific proof. The videos will certainly go viral.
I am certain the high moral standards of the Seiren company will preclude their launching a secret media campaign to discredit Psy, of Gangnam fame, in which it will be implied that Psy's horsey-horsey signature dance-move is caused by chronic flatulence.
On the other hand, if Psy should become "yesterday's meme gone stale," I would not rule out a multi-million Yen or Won celebrity endorsement by Psy of the Seiren Deost underwear line, complete with a heart-rending YouTube video in which he tearfully confesses the condition he has spent his life trying to hide, out of shame (which will also go viral, and cause thousands of women and men to offer to marry him).
Disclaimer: I have no connection with the Seiren company; and, I have never danced the horsey-horsey Gangnam Style at either trot or gallop.
best, Bill
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When are they coming to the United States? I want some! 
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BillWoodruff wrote: I am not wearing any underwear right now, only almost falling-apart, shredding,
worn-out, genuine Perry Ellis "America" blue jeans
Far, FAR too much information.
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_Damian S_ wrote: Far, FAR too much information.
Hi Damian,
I think you are absolutely right; why ruin surrealism with bare facts ?
I have deleted that content.
thanks, Bill
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BillWoodruff wrote: I have deleted that content.
Come on, where's the fun in that.
If little sister minds, her imaginations is way to good for her own good.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: where's the fun in that.
Hi Jorgen, The "fun" (I would prefer to call it "satisfaction"), is in getting some spot-on feedback, appropriately, for a piece of satire, in what I interpret as an in an empathic mocking form, and acting on it, so that a small piece of ephemeral writing by a Lounge Lizard ... as significant, in the long-term, as one of the average mattress' twenty-million bed-mites, each of whom takes a crap every hour ... is "tighter."
From such crumbs, of good natured sporting jest, I make ... a meal: such is my degree of desperation 
best, Bill
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Pah! I invented Skiddies back in the seventies before winged panty pads were available. Same principle except they were for men (or very flatulent women).
Better than the pants because they fitted any underpants and could be thrown away.
The theme tune was to the sound of Skippy, the bush kangaroo.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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skiddy, skiddy, skiddy the bush kangapoo!
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no - not a really late halloween post!
I moved the Mac to Mrs. Maxxx's shop on the weekend so I could play do wome work between customers (cuz, I'm a nice chap, and gaver her the day off)
When I brought it back home all was well, but my middle mouse button didn't work ;(
Reboot, settings checking, different USB ports - nothing wold work.
so, before posting to Q&A I googled (implementing rule 3 or whatever it is of the Q&A guidelines)
Found a bunch of pages, laboriously opened them by Command-Clicking or right-click open in new tab.
Then, through habit, I middle clicked on one link.... And it opened in a new tab!
Middle button now working as advertised!
Seriously strange behaviour (unless, of course, it's a loose connection in the mouse that's just fixed itself, but there's not many moving parts to go wrong!)
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At least this story has a happy ending. 
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The mouse must have eaten one too many liquor-filled chocolates!
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good thought - except there is no such thing as too many liquor-filled chocolates %)
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I could play do wome work between customers
I think it is spelt 'Womb'.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Reminds me of a GREAT joke...
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Maybe afterwards.
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If she had just wore protection before entering...at least that's waht they tell me.
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Of course by "unable to remember" means "is too embarrassed to say".
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In a phone interview later that day, however, Malloy told WPRI that she did not fall off a roof, as eyewitnesses had initially thought, but had simply been trying to cut through the eight-inch wide alley between the two walls.
"Hold on guyzzz. I know, like, a total shortcut... But it's only for skinny bitchez so you wait here!"
...and we never saw her again.
8 inch wide alley? Shortcut? Those 2 words don't go together, but then, I'm not a ninja.
modified 13-Nov-12 21:48pm.
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wizardzz wrote: In a phone interview later that day, however, Malloy told WPRI that she did not fall off a roof, as eyewitnesses had initially thought, but had simply been trying to cut through the eight-inch wide alley between the two walls.
"Hold on guyzzz. I know, like, a total shortcut... But it's only for skinny bitchez so you wait here!"
...and we never saw her again.
8 inch wide alley? Shortcut? Those 2 words don't go together, but then, I'm not a ninja.
So how did she get stuck there and be 2 feet of the ground if she didn't fall from the roof? Jump?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I bet she fell too, but in her defense, if it is narrower at the bottom, one foot might have gotten stuck 2' off the ground while taking a step and then she just fell.
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10 years ago I wrote a C++ program to convert programs from my old computer to binary files on the PC. There were several old computers of that kind, so it came down to supporting three different kinds of formats. Unfortunately I had only information on two of them at the time. It did its job, but finding the correct settings turned out to be very hard for users who did not know all details of the tape format. Now it has been high time to keep my promise to write a better and more intelligent program.
Getting the data off the tapes is the easiest part: Hook up the tape recorder to the PC's sound card and sample them as WAV files. The raw samples usually don't look very good. They come from more than 30 year old tapes and analog tape recorders. This is why some filtering was in order. Even the old program did a good job at reconstructing the original digital signal with the help of some mathmatical magic.
Now the buffer should contain a sequence of longer or shorter high/low sequences, representing bits. Plus static at the beginning and the end and possible errors in the data. Simply counting the samples would not have worked.
In the old program the user had to figure out the minimum and maximum sampling settings for both ones and zeros. That involved a lot of trial and error until reliable settings were found, but then it usually worked for all tapes from that computer.
It was not easy and involved something resembling fuzzy logic, but the new program has just successfully converted a WAV recording from my old computer correctly at just the second try. It figured out the correct timing, automatically corrected the inverted signal and then correctly generated a 4096 byte binary file of the program. The second try was only needed to (still manually) set the filtering to a stronger setting. There was a small glitch in the middle of the data.
Now I must wait fot WAVs from other computers to test the other formats, but I think the concept works. Getting the binary files onto the old computers actually is very easy. The program can generate a new WAV file from the binaries, in any of the three formats of course. Save them to tape or play them directly to the computer and they will load.
This way we can even program conveniently on the PC. I Use Visual Studio, a special little C compiler and an emulator for testing. When I'm finished, I just create a WAV from the binary file and then can import and run it on the real thing.
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That is pretty cool! 
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It's amazing, but most of the tapes still load into the old computer as they are. They were not the best quality tapes to begin with and the oldest programs are from 1978. It's really a small miracle that they still load. Other users were not so lucky when they brought back their old computers from the attic.
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That's the kind of stuff I love to do.
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Yes, you have to come up with some ideas to make this wotk. I should ask some innocent questions in Q&A about some of the remaining issues
Besides being interesting and providing a tool to rescue practically everything that was ever done on those old computers, it is also mentioned here[^]
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bryce wrote: Proof: Where the Xmas part this year is being held
You're only having PART of Christmas??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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well i'm not much of a drinker these days
fixed the missed "y"
Bryce
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bryce wrote: i'm not much of a drinker these days
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So you've booked in then? 
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well i accepted the invitation if thats the question
Bryce
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Awesome - can you take a friend
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"The fully catered night will host you, the Lovely People, and your partner for the night"
whatdya look like in a sexy little black number?
Bryce
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"The dress code at the Mana Bar is pretty simple really – No Shorts, No Thongs. Unless you’re in cosplay."
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Never seemed to be too successful at taking on Intel. Motorola gave up long ago. Now Intel will definately have a monopoly. Never really liked the Intel chips, but they were selected for the first IBM PC, and the industry has not reall looked back since them. From what I remember Intel was able to provide an 8085 in a 40 pin plasitc package, while the Motorola 68000 was in a 64 pin ceramic package. The 8086 was the same except is was really 16 bit, and in a 48 pin package. IBM was so cheap that they even did not run the chip a full speed.
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That sucks. I use AMD CPUs (and it looks like I'm the only person doing so).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I tend to build systems with AMD.
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